Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
It is often claimed that Bach performed Reinhard Keiser’s St Mark Passion on Good Friday on at least three occasions...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
For over 700 years, every hour on the hour, a bugle call has sounded from the tower of the Church...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2015
Caldara had already written at least 19 oratorios for Mantua and Rome before 1716, when he entered the service of...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
This film dates from the middle of Thielemann’s brief period in charge of the Munich Philharmonic. It was first released...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 07/2015
The historical interest of Mendelssohn’s text of the St Matthew perhaps lies less in the details of the version than...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2015
Something of a Tchaikovsky hit-parade here (hence the title and Classic FM connection) but nothing run-of-the-mill about the performers. The...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 07/2015
The Netherlands-based violinist Rosanne Philippens is a significant young talent whose varied tonal palette especially suits Szymanowski’s music, though in...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2015
Talking of ‘far too fast’, here comes Sir Roger Norrington with a characteristic, challenging (and even snook-cocking) approach to Haydn’s...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2015
‘This recording pays homage to the tradition of these pieces,’ says Michael Tilson Thomas in an introduction to this 12-item...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 07/2015
Two discs of Telemann concertos and ouverture-suites, both by ensembles of similar size, even with a work in common (an...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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